review of the season’s biggest disappointment, at least as far as I’m concerned. I’m expecting hate mail from Mann-lovers who think my obligation to support an “artist” triumphs my responsibility to let readers know this is an uninvolving dud. And from Johnny Depp fans who don’t want to hear he’s miscast. Though, according to Anne Thompson, the conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that this not is

the kind of movie the fans want to see the hugely popular Depp in. Anne takes particularly exception to the harsh digital cinematography, which I think is the least of the problems with this emotionally ice-cold movie. The current rating at

is a tepid 67 percent positive, not the kind of critical support that a period film needs (“Cinderella Man,” another Universal flick set in the same era, died despite an 80). With “Bruno” looking softish next week, it appears all of

Universal’s summer eggs are in one basket — Judd Apatow‘s dramedy “Funny People” with Adam Sandler, arriving at the end of July. Universal had planned to open Richard Curtis‘s “The Boat That Rocked,” which bombed with the public and critics in the UK this spring, on August 28.. That iffy duty has been shifted to Universal’s specialty label Focus, which plans a November landing. Maybe Focus — which, curiously, just moved the opening of Ang Lee‘s “Taking Woodstock” to the old “The Boat that Rocks” slot, two weeks after the Woodstock anniversary, at which point everybody will be sick of the subject — will also end up with another of Universal’s Working Title shelfie. “Wild Child,” featuring the final film appearance of the late Natasha Richardson, which flopped in the UK last September, has been on and off Universal’s schedule for the past year and a half.